Innovation Quotes
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The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.
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Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.
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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
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Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?
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Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.
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We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
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Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.
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For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
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We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.
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Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information
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The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.
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The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.
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Students from other E.U. countries are worth billions to our economy and help drive it through their hard work and innovation.
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Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to Warren Buffett, that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.
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The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.
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Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions.
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Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.
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Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat...
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It ain’t innovation unless something moves.
